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DigitalOcean Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Frankfurt 1

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
48,421
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 47,130 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$6.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    DigitalOcean
  • Plan
    Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    Frankfurt 1
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    2 Gbps
  • OS image
    ubuntu-24-04-x64
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 7, 2026, 09:53:00 UTC
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CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 8.6 GB/s 3 3.02%
Scale higher is better 8.15 GB/s 3 2.74%
Add higher is better 8.93 GB/s 3 3.71%
Triad higher is better 9.14 GB/s 3 5.94%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 147/s 3 6.6%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 10,104/s 3 2.92%
SHA-256 higher is better 167 MB/s 3 1.9%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 2.49 GB/s 3 4.2%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.25 GB/s 3 0.198%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 5.67 ms 3 3.76%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 176/s 3 1.5%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 20.7 ms 3 42.8%
Requests per second, average higher is better 165/s 3 4.8%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 94.4 MB/s (24,179 IOPS) 94.7 MB/s (24,242 IOPS) 189.1 MB/s (48,421 IOPS)
64K 573.8 MB/s (9,180 IOPS) 576.8 MB/s (9,228 IOPS) 1.12 GB/s (18,408 IOPS)
512K 637 MB/s (1,273 IOPS) 670.8 MB/s (1,341 IOPS) 1.28 GB/s (2,614 IOPS)
1M 662 MB/s (661 IOPS) 706.1 MB/s (706 IOPS) 1.34 GB/s (1,367 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 1.93 Gbps 1.79 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2 Gbps 1.87 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.3 Gbps 1.05 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 1.16 Gbps 1.03 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 1.82 Gbps 1.57 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 816 1.23 ms
fdatasync 894 1.12 ms
fsync 301 3.32 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 299 3.34 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 395 2.53 ms
fdatasync 509 1.96 ms
fsync 215 4.65 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 195 5.14 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 318 3.15 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 155 6.46 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 63.4 15.8 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 46.4 21.6 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 24.1 41.5 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 399 2.5 ms
write, close, fsync 277 3.62 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 535,675 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 452 1.86 ms 3.77 ms 6.91 ms 33.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 992 6.64 ms 15.6 ms 27.1 ms 152 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 872 28.8 ms 88.6 ms 137 ms 243 ms 0
Read only 1 17,339 0.052 ms 0.083 ms 0.114 ms 0.718 ms 0
Read only 8 14,586 0.474 ms 0.883 ms 1.18 ms 2.96 ms 0
Read only 32 9,410 3.01 ms 3.78 ms 6.3 ms 15.2 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.78 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 324 2.67 ms 5.59 ms 8.5 ms 27.3 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 860 8.12 ms 14.6 ms 28.5 ms 84.5 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 908 33.1 ms 49.4 ms 64.5 ms 134 ms 0
Read only 1 1,269 0.683 ms 1.69 ms 3.7 ms 9.62 ms 0
Read only 8 4,327 1.53 ms 4 ms 7.12 ms 18.1 ms 0
Read only 32 4,108 6.33 ms 12.9 ms 19.3 ms 38.7 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 42.8 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 86.3 1,726 10.1 ms 19 ms 33.1 ms 0
Read/write 8 199 3,983 37.6 ms 61.1 ms 105 ms 0
Read/write 32 210 4,208 140 ms 236 ms 332 ms 0
Read only 1 460 7,363 2.03 ms 3.19 ms 5 ms 0
Read only 8 426 6,811 18.3 ms 23.5 ms 30.8 ms 0
Read only 32 388 6,203 80 ms 101 ms 126 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 37.2 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 20,616 18,742 2.85 ms 8.64 ms 17.5 ms
1:1 set:get 19,518 9,759 3.22 ms 7.39 ms 15.9 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 0.447 3.5 s 3.98 s 4.07 s 0%
Shop page 0.447 4.84 s 5.81 s 6.15 s 0%
Category page 0.363 4.53 s 5.41 s 5.51 s 0%
Product page 0.335 3.52 s 3.95 s 4.07 s 0%
Product search 0.335 3.23 s 3.75 s 3.8 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.433 8.03 s 14.5 s 15 s 0%
Shop page 0.433 17.7 s 20 s 20.2 s 0%
Category page 0.433 17.1 s 19.9 s 20.1 s 0%
Product page 0.433 15 s 15.4 s 15.4 s 0%
Product search 0.203 13 s 13.7 s 13.8 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 0.781 3.24 s 4.21 s 4.44 s 0%
Cart 0.781 3.44 s 4.32 s 4.44 s 0%
Checkout 0.781 2.65 s 3.01 s 3.13 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 0.896 11.4 s 15.2 s 15.5 s 0%
Cart 0.896 14.2 s 15.1 s 15.3 s 0%
Checkout 0.56 12.4 s 13.7 s 13.8 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 71 to 74 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 9.2% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 961 MiB
Storage 25 GB SSD 24.1 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
DO-Regular
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
2295 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
Yes
RAM reported
961 MiB
Swap reported
0 MiB
Disk reported
24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported
KVM
CPU steal
9.2% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-142-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Basic
Location
Frankfurt 1
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
2 Gbps
Transfer
1 TB
Port 25
Closed
Monthly price at test time
$6.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.0089
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 7, 2026, 09:56:07 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 7, 2026, 09:53:00 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 7, 2026, 09:54:43 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 11:10:00 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 11:10:00 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.011
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